Google Friend Connect, now more personalized. On the subway, I bump elbows with a guy for 20 city blocks without exchanging a single word. Forty-five minutes later, I find the same guy at the local guitar shop, and we start to talk — turns out he plays a Gibson Les Paul just like I do. We may have been strangers on the train, but in the guitar shop, we discover our shared passion for guitars.
Often, the web can feel like that subway. There are probably people commuting to the places you regularly visit, but you don’t know who those people are, and your paths may never cross. With this in mind, we're thrilled to introduce a new set of Friend Connect features that let site owners help their visitors get to know each other and personalize their site's experience and content. Break the ice Visitors to your site can get to know each other better by sharing details about themselves that are relevant to the site they're on.
We've also added the ability for people to send private messages to each other. Personalize your website experience. Google Search Gets Personal: Social Search Launches in Google La. Social Search just went live in Google Labs. Google announced that it was working on this Social Search feature at the Web 2.0 Summit last week, but at that time, Google’s Marissa Mayer announced that it would only be available “in a few weeks.” Social Search taps into a user’s social network profiles and displays relevant links and status updates that members of a user’s own social network have shared at the bottom of the default search results page. According to Google, Social Search will enhance the search experience on Google by providing users with more personally relevant search results. To get started, you first have to head over to Google Labs‘s experimental section and activate this feature.
For now, Social Search will only be available in the US and in English. Sources: Gmail Contacts, Google Reader Subscriptions and Your Google Profile Social Search can tab into three different sources, so you will need accounts on at least one of these services to make Social Search work. Social Network Statistics | Brian Solis - PR 2.0. InShare0 Source: Shutterstock Social Networks are among the most powerful examples of socialized media. They create a dynamic ecosystem that incubates and nurtures relationships between people and the content they create and share. As these communities permeate and reshape our lifestyle and how we communicate with one another, we’re involuntarily forcing advertisers and marketers to rapidly evolve how they vie for our attention. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Yelp, and other online communities transformed the regimen and practice of marketing “at” people into an opportunity to engage and interact with us – on our terms.
It is the zeitgeist of socialized media and it’s manifesting into an obsession for branding, advertising, “viral,” marketing, and communications experts and professionals worldwide. But, the people who define each network are reticent to the hollow attempts of faceless friending and in-network marketing. 30-day traffic, (U.S., Worldwide) Gender Male: 43% Female: 57% Age Education. Projects. iGoogle is Now Social: Google Launches Social Gadgets. Google just rolled out 18 social gadgets for its iGoogle start page. These social gadgets turn iGoogle into a far more interactive and social experience, as users can now play casual games with other iGoogle users and share videos and to-do lists right from the iGoogle homepage.
As Google’s Marissa Mayer and Rose Yao, iGoogle’s product manager, told us yesterday, while the first incarnation of iGoogle was about connecting people with information, the service will now also focus on connecting people to each other. These new social gadgets already launched in Australia earlier this month, so this announcement doesn’t come as too much of a surprise, though the U.S. launch also brings a number of new U.S. -centric gadgets to iGoogle from organizations like NPR, the Huffington Post, and the New York Times. iGoogle as Google’s Social Hub? On the surface, this doesn’t seem like a major announcement. Keeping Up With Your Friends Social Gadgets Lots of Potential. Home | 12seconds.tv (beta) Pingle | Curious Squid. Ever found yourself bringing up the Facebook application to set your status for your FB friends, then launching your favorite Twitter client to send the same info to your Tweeps, then thinking you should have posted it to your blog as well?
Twenty minutes later, you find yourself alone, thumbs aching, too tired to really appreciate the picture of the funny little dog with a scarf anymore. Actual Size We at Curious Squid dare to stand up and say NO MORE. And thus we created…Pingle! Pingle is an application for the Apple iPhone which allows you to update your status, post links, upload photos, and update your location on all your social networks at once. Write once, post everywhere! Pingle is a client for the Ping.FM social networking aggregator service.
Pingle Features Pingle works on both the original 1G iPhone and the 3G iPhone, and (probably) on the iPod Touch. What Else You Need Pingle uses the excellent service to update the following services automatically whenever you post: Zcapes - Home. Ning. Create your own social network for anything. Trends. Portable Social Graphs - Imagining their Potential - SlideShare.